OS CONSELHOS ESCOLARES E A PARTICIPAÇÃO NA GESTÃO ESCOLAR: UMA ANÁLISE DAS PRÁTICAS NAS ESCOLAS DA REDE MUNICIPAL DE EDUCAÇÃO DE COLATINA

This research aimed to investigate the ways in which School Councils work and their impacts on the qualification of pedagogical and administrative practices set in motion by school directors in the implementation of democratic school management. The objective was to explore, through a structured questionnaire in Google Forms, the functioning of the School Councils of schools in the municipal network of basic education in Colatina. After carrying out the survey and organizationof all the material available in the answered questionnaires, analyzes were produced from the thematic categories structured during the document analysis, aboutthe formatting of the election of the School Councils, the definitions of the agendas for the meetings,the functioning of the meetings by assembly,by segment,and other relevant categories that were identified during the organization of the data. After performing the categorizations as described above, the information collected was organized in spreadsheets and graphs, objectively exposing all the aspects highlighted in the categorizations and the epistemological paradigms of the research.